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You're assuming it will be anywhere close to accurate. Knowing Facebook's previous attempts at AI, I wouldn't expect much. I wonder what the false positive rate
by mtgx 9y ago
You're assuming it will be anywhere close to accurate. Knowing Facebook's previous attempts at AI, I wouldn't expect much. I wonder what the false positive rate will be.
"Dave, you should stop thinking about killing yourself!"
- "But...I wasn't thinking about killing myself?!"
"Come on, Dave, deep down you know you want to. You can't fool me! I know everything about you."
"- Well, now that I think about it, watching Facebook all day does make me feel quite depressed..."
- dominotw 9y ago>Knowing Facebook's previous attempts at AI Curious what these were.
- DashRattlesnake 9y agoThe content of "places" feature looks like it's managed by a machine learning algorithm, and it appears to be a disaster (from a user perspective). It incorrectly merges and proposes bizarre categories all the time. There was an bad issue with a place I cared enough about to try to correct, so I ventured into the "community" they setup to build their training set to try to get it fixed. It was such a depressing place. Hundreds of people tricked by gamification into working for free for a for-profit company, only to be frustrated and have their efforts shit upon by its half-ass algorithm.